Lollipop Chainsaw gets goth and expository in new trailer

Chainsaws, lollipops and rainbows! Everything that’s wonderful!

Suda51 makes some of our favorite games, be they the off-kilter Killer7 or the hellishly punk Shadows of the Damned. Suda’s studio Grasshopper Manufacture has a pretty big 2012 planned, with downloadable games like Sine Mora and Black Knight Sword, along with the baseball meets zombies title Diabolical Pitch, but Lollipop Chainsaw has to be the team’s marquee release of the year. We just got a new trailer for the 2012 title that sheds some light on the plot (other than “cheerleaders vs zombies equals success”), along with one of the lead villains.

Chainsaw’s plot looks like the story of a goth kid named Swan getting revenge on his high school (with demonic incantations instead of automatic weapons) and a cheerleader named Juliet stands in the way. And this time the cheerleader has a chainsaw that shoots explosions. Of course, Grasshopper’s stories are often a lot more twisted than they seem on the surface. What do you think the strange twist will be near the end? Our bet is it turns out to be the dream of a space pirate and the final stage is on Venus.